 If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation,...  Itinerary of General Washington from June 15, 1775, to December 23, 1783 - Página 148editado por - 1892 - 334 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Frank Bergen - 1898 - 70 páginas
...says: " If I were called upon to draw a picture of the times and of the men from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an... | |
 | Henry Phelps Johnston - 1900 - 264 páginas
...Massachusetts, he poured out his soul in the most anxious terms. To the former he wrote: "If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem... | |
 | Henry P. Johnston - 1900 - 266 páginas
...Massachusetts, he poured out his soul in the most anxious terms. To the former he wrote: "If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - 1900 - 318 páginas
...correct . picture of the conditions, the cause of which he did not originally understand : "If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, 1See letter to Washington, in Witherspoon, Works, IX. 150. In his " Essay on Money," Witherspoon held... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 650 páginas
...while the common interests of America are mouldering and sinking into irretrievable ruin. ... If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation and extravagance seem... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1904 - 534 páginas
...toward the close of the year is thus given by Washington in a letter to Benjamin Harrison. If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem... | |
 | Emory Upton - 1904 - 538 páginas
...toward the close of the year is thus given by Washington in a letter to Benjamin Harrison. If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 768 páginas
...despaired, at length despairing? There was reason to do so. "If I were to be called upon," he said, "to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem... | |
 | Emory Upton - 1904 - 532 páginas
...pay. If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1905 - 660 páginas
...the common interests of America are mouldering and sinking into irretrievable ruin. . . . If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem... | |
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